Word: childishly
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...ranting of TIME and other pseudo-Americans over the CIA disclosures would be comical were it not so childish and tragic. What the U.S. needs is a stronger CIA, and let the chips fall where they...
...charisma will also blunt the appeal of Rabin critics like former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Since Sharon becomes a civil servant who by law cannot openly criticize the government, Rabin has also neatly stilled the voice of a maverick politician who once called him both "naive" and "childish" for indicating willingness to trade Abu Rudeis and the Sinai passes for a peace agreement with Sadat...
...named Burt and Curt are also present) is a way of signifying-on the cheap-that the movie aims at something more than realistic portraiture. Director Perry and Writer McGuane are desperate for us to see that their characters' obsession with keeping outworn frontier traditions alive is really childish role playing. This is most evident in the movie's treatment of women. All are either sexually restless (notably Elizabeth Ashley as the rancher's wife) because their men are so wrapped up in fantasies, or (like Charlene Dallas) exploited as bit players in the dreamers' lives...
...Essendine, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. emphasizes the childish charm of his old chum Coward. Theatrically, this is a wise decision. The slightest stress on what can only be called the sadomasochistic implications of Essendine's relationships with his clan could easily spoil the evening. It is much better to let the unbitter truthfulness of the writing steal over one later. Excepting Fairbanks and George Pentecost as a comically clumsy young playwright, the cast, which includes Jane Alexander and Ilka Chase, never quite achieves the sense of giddy weightlessness that a Coward comedy should have. Still, the players at least sense...
...world in which our claim to "vital national security interests" in Indochina will be thought to be as ridiculous as China claiming the same in Latin America. We need a vision of a world in which we can trust the diversity of other peoples, and refrain from our childish and futile attempts to buy friendship with weapons. Luther Lewis Davis, Calif...